MJ Rosenberg

For Ne­tanyahu, the only gauge of suc­cess is whether an ac­tion helps or hurts his elec­tion chances.

A for­mer US pres­i­dent want­ed to break up the CIA af­ter it strayed from its mis­sion, en­gag­ing in ‘strange ac­tiv­i­ties’.

Sony’s de­ci­sion to pull the film ‘The In­ter­view’ has more to do with busi­ness and prof­it than with na­tion­al in­ter­ests.

NIAC has in­creas­ing­ly trou­bled the war crowd, “so much so that it has be­come one of their favourite tar­gets”.

As long as Is­rael’s se­cu­ri­ty is not put at risk – “and no pres­i­dent would put it at risk” – the pres­i­dent will pre­vail.

US in­ter­ests are be­ing dam­aged by Is­rael’s cur­rent shift to the ex­treme Right, so why not nom­i­nate Chuck Hagel?

The coun­try’s main lob­by­ists in the US may end up has­ten­ing a one-state so­lu­tion, much to their own dis­may.

Pe­ter Beinart’s lat­est book has not only an­gered the Is­raeli left, but has caused fury amid the right.

In 2009, Oba­ma pur­sued a diplo­mat­ic ap­proach to­ward Iran, while to­day he re­lies on sanc­tions and threats of war.

Com­mon sense dic­tates that war with Iran would be dev­as­tat­ing for the re­gion – and com­mon sense must pre­vail.